Losers by Matthue Roth

Author:Matthue Roth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

7. INBETWEEN DAYS

“Dude,” Vadim said to me one day after school, “you will not believe these guys.”

“These guys” were his geek posse. Since I’d been escaping downtown, I hadn’t really gotten an update from Vadim and his new life for a while. Now he was giving me the full-blast catch-up. It was his only real acknowledgment that it had been a while since he’d seen me on the bus home.

“Between them, it’s, what do you say, a whole cavalcade of knowledge. They’re, like, a superhero team. This one girl, she does freelance work for the CIA because she is an insanely good hacker. They don’t even know she’s too young. All she had to do was give herself a Social Security number for cashing her checks. Another girl is plotting the entire surface of Mars using fractal geometry. It’s a whole culture of nerds. And it doesn’t even matter that I don’t speak good English. This guy Felix, he came over from Brazil three and a half years ago, and still doesn’t speak a word of English. But his math skills are so phenomenal that the administration doesn’t kick him out, they just let him take six periods a day of math. Everyone’s like that. They’re all like that. And they’re tough, too. When Freshman Day comes, the South Lawn won’t touch these guys at all. Now I officially have a free ticket out of getting beat up when everyone else is getting beat up. So what do you think? Isn’t that amazing?”

Vadim sat on the edge of the swivel chair in his room, expectant, his mouth hanging open, waiting for me to respond.

“Did you call me dude?” I said.

“Jupiter, did you listen at all to me?”

“Yeah, utterly. You know someone in the CIA, right?”

“Juuupiter…”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” I said. I actually was feeling bad. “Look—I really am interested in your new world at school, but the truth is, I can’t stop thinking about downtown. Listen, Vadim, I need to tell you. It’s like a whole new—”

“And another thing,” Vadim said without blinking, as if I hadn’t interrupted him at all. “I think I like this girl.”

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